Melvin sabshin biography

American psychiatrist

Melvin Sabshin, M.D. (1925– 4 June 2011) was an American psychiatrist, the medical director of the American Psychiatric Association from 1974 to 1997, and a leader in psychiatry placing it firmly within the discipline of medicine.^[1][2] He worked quietly within many groups and organizations to attain the changes he believed necessary to advance the profession of psychiatry.

Biography

Sabshin was born in New York City, the son of Jewish immigrant parents from Russia.

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His father attained an M.D. degree in 1913 and opened his medical practice in New York. At the age of 50, he developed hypertension and moved the family to Miami Beach, Florida. Sabshin attended public schools in New York and completed high school at the age of 14. He entered the University of Florida in 1944 and graduated with a B.S.

degree and a Phi Beta Kappa key. World War II was under way, he postponed going to medical school and joined the U.S. Arm Melvin Sabshin, M.D., Led APA Through Field's Major Changes SYR